Shmankivtsi (Ukrainian: Шманьківці, Polish: Szmańkowce) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Zavodske settlement hromada.

Additionally, the village encompasses the former locality of Strusivka, which formed in the 18th century, possibly by the a member of the Struś coat of arms.

[3] Leading specialist in Ukrainian onomastics, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Lviv University Mykhailo Khudash [uk] in his monograph "Origin of Ukrainian Carpathian and Carpathian names of settlements (anthroponymic formations)" noted that the original meaning was Shmaikivtsi, meaning 'family or subjects Shmaika'.

The medieval period is associated with the discovery of various bronze and silver jewellery, including rings, beads, necklaces, and tiara plaques,[6] dating from the 16th–17th centuries.

[11] On 29 September 1485, the Polish King and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV Jagiellon issued a deed confirming the sale by Jan Freder of Pleszewicz to the Buczacki brothers of half the village of Shmankivtsi in Skal County on the Sarnek River for 200 hryvnias and two horses worth 50 hryvnias;[12][13][14] the settlement was acquired by the Buczacki brother magnates of the coat of arms of Abdank.

The monastery was allocated a large part of the village of Shmankivtsi with rates:[clarification needed] the first, Mlynsky; the second, at the Court; the third, Stone; the fourth, Maciejewski; and the fifth, Demianovskyi.

Stanislaw Liantskoronski [uk; pl] from Brzez and Jan and Mykola Potocki from Potok also gave the monastery their units in this village.

[19] In 1623, Zofia of Brzez, wife of Mykola Churyl [uk] of Goraj, sister and heiress of the Podolsk voivode Stanislaw Liantskoronski, ceded her ancestral estates to the village of Shmankivtsi, smaller and larger, and Shvaikivtsi to Paweł Kełpiński and his heirs.

[16] In 1644, Gabriel Kełpiński, son of Marcin, ceded his estates to Shmankivtsi, located in Kamianets County, Podil Voivodeship, which he inherited after the death of his brother Paul in its entirety and with all benefits, in favor of Krzysztof Kełpiński and his legal heirs; all processes on his part were released and the act of donation was confirmed by an oath.

"[28] In 1672, Gabriel Silnicki , a castellan from Chernihiv, ceded his estates – the villages of Shmankivtsi and Shmankivchyky – to Stanisław Makowiecki, the Letychiv mayor, and his heirs.

[16] In 1710, a tax on a quarter and a half of the smoke[clarification needed] from the village of Shmankivtsi was levied on the maintenance of the garrison in the Okopa Holy Trinity Fortress.

In particular, the innkeeper[31] cornet player Konstanty Lanckoroński, led by two hundred armed men, "maimed two priests and one brother; and Fr.

[32] Tomasz Makowiecki, a hunter from Lukiv, was no less cruel: his subjects beat the monks, tied them up, put them on a cart and took them out of the village.

On 1 December 1755, the Uniate Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and All Rus Leo Szeptycki announced the excommunication (anathema) of them and their subjects who had taken part in the attacks.

In 2019, at the 40-meter height of the tower of the Chortkiv Church, archaeologist and researcher of fortifications and antiquities Volodymyr Dobrianskyi discovered a shrapnel shell detonator, and according to its flight trajectory determined that the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th cannon regiments (64 guns) under the command of Ataman Kyrylo Karas [uk] during the Chortkiv offensive (June 7–28, 1919) were stationed in the woods west of the village.

[45] During the German–Soviet war, 67 residents of Shmankivtsi died or went missing in the Red Army, including: In 1954, a large-scale fire broke out on Strilka Street.

As a result, the vegetables burned, the fruit trees dropped their leaves, and several people were hospitalized with poisoning by an unknown substance.

Ivan Hordievskyi the Enlightenment reading room was built, along with a savings bank and grocery store, and the Brotherhood of Sobriety was founded.